With the NBA season starting next week it seems that Duke has axed its NBA coverage.
It joins NFL and Bundesliga in terms of disappearing from the schedule. Apparently MLS and AFL arent going to be renewed.
Both Formula E and WRC, having another year of contract, will be back in 2019 but I gonna guess these will go the same way.
With no audience watching there is no money to be made for TVNZ (or Sky wrt F1) - no money = no content renewal. Irrespective of exclusivity or non-exclusivity of content, if the economics dont stack up then the viewer loses the content.